Rhyme scheme Essays & Research Papers

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Oodgeroo's poem "Time is Running Out" is representative of both her style and thematic concerns. "Colour Bar" likewise expresses these ideas. Some features of her style are rhyme, symbolic language and alliteration.
Rhyme is represented in both "Time is Running Out" and "Colour Bar". In "Time is Running Out" there is no set rhyme scheme that runs throughout the poem. In the first stanza the rhyme scheme is that every second line rhymes for example, spade and trade. In the second and third...

Rhyme Schemes of Robert Frost’s Poetry
Jake Jelsone
English 120-08
A rhyme is defined as a verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. One of the best examples of a poet that mastered rhyming beautifully was Robert Frost. Robert Frost was one of the best poets of the twentieth century. He is highly admired for his work about rural life and command for the English language. While many poets like to free verse their poetry, Robert Frost normally does not....

﻿Essay writing Kenny Pau
Hunting Snake
The poem ‘hunting snake’ written by Judith Wright highlights the idea that nature and man are equal. Through the use of language and imagery the poet portrays the snake as a powerful and majestic creature. This emphasizes the persona’s response to the snakes. She implies that we humans have narrow stereotypical views of the...

Conventions of Nursery Rhymes
The conventional nursery rhyme is a vehicle for educating children at an early age of development. Originally constructed to help with language acquisition and understanding, these rhymes are often characterized as “very short poems designed specifically to teach children in one way or another” (Grace 13 Sept 2013). The purpose of a nursery rhyme is to teach language to children by using different techniques helping to stimulate their imagination, while at the...

Analysis Of William Blake’s Poems
Infant Joy Notes
This simple poem is two stanzas of six lines each. The two stanzas each follow an ABCDDC rhyme scheme, a contrast to most of Blake's other poetic patterns. The rhyming words are always framed by the repetition of "thee" at the end of the fourth and sixth lines, drawing the reader's attention to the parent, who speaks, and his or her concern with the baby. The infant's words, or those imagined by the parent to be spoken by the infant, are set...

In Robert Browning’s poem--“My Last Duchess”--the speaker (presumably the Duke) is giving a servant of his prospective wife’s family a tour of his home. He draws a back a curtain to reveal a concealed painting of a woman by Frà Pandolf, explaining that it is a portrait of his late wife. The Duke invites his guest to sit and look at the painting, and as they look at the portrait of the late Duchess the Duke describes her. Throughout the whole explanation of his late wife’s actions, one may get...

﻿THE VOICE
Themes- Explore how Hardy powerfully express loss of love in The Voice.
The voice is a poem written by Thomas Hardy to remember his departed wife Emma, he is moarning her death in this poem. The voice portrays the theme of Nostalgia as Hardy is trying to cope with Emma’s loss. Hardy portrays feelings of misery and powerfully expresses loss of love in this poem through the use of literary devices and imagery.
The poem consists of four stanzas which are constructed...

I am going to analyze the third and fourth stanzas of the poem ¨The Raven¨ of Edgar Allan Poe. “The person has heard a knocking at his door, but no one was there”. At this point in the poem, his fear and excitement are increasing as some voice keeps repeating the word "Lenore." It is not clear whether he actually hears some other voice speak the word, or if he just interprets the echo after he himself says it as belonging to someone else. Most likely they are his own words, but in his...

Keeping love alive is not easy. One knows that life eventually comes to an end, but does love? Time passes and days must end. It is in "Sonnet 18", by Shakespeare, that we see a challenge to the idea that love is finite. Shakespeare shows us how some love is eternal and will live on forever in comparison to a beautiful summer's day. Shakespeare has a way of keeping love alive in "Sonnet 18", and he uses a variety of techniques to demonstrate how love is more brilliant and everlasting than a...

﻿Compare the ways the poets use structure to develop ideas about a relationship in ‘Sonnet 43’ and one other poem (36 marks)
Carol Ann Duffy and Elizabeth Barrett Browning use a range of structural techniques to develop ideas about the relationships within the poems ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Sonnet 43’.
Both ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Sonnet 43’ are written in the form of sonnets, although ‘Quickdraw’ is in the form of a loose sonnet so it does not follow the typical conventions of a traditional sonnet, but both...

Ronald Stuart Thomas, born in Cardiff, on the 29th of March 1913-2000, He was a well known poet and a clergyman for the Church of England. Thomas’s ministry took him to a number rural parishes in north Wales, the bleak beauty of the landscape and the hard lives of the peasant farmers became the main themes of his poems.
By analysing these aspects of Thomas’s poetry this essay will examine how he makes the Welsh countryside and its inhabitants vivid to the reader.
Thomas's poem “The Hill...

﻿Key words
• Offensive – a military operation which aggressively attacks in order to gain territory or achieve a specific aim.
• Apocalyptic – relating to the end of the world, particularly in a religious sense
What is the poem about?
This is the only poem we’re studying which looks directly at the fighting in the war. The first three stanzas show us the soldiers relaxing before the battle and appreciating the nature around them, before the fighting begins in stanza 4. The men...

Harmonium
‘and was due to be bundled off to a skip. Or was mine for a song, if I wanted it.’
* Ambiguity: this is either an expression used to denote a bargain... or the harmonium is quite literally used for singing.
‘Sunlight, through stained glass, which day to day could beautify saints and raise the dead’
* __ Stained glass windows are pictures of saints
* __ The Roman Catholic process of declaring a deceased person’s life as one which was lived in a holy fashion thus...

'Love Songs in Age' and 'Reference Back' are both poems by Philip Larkin that deal with the painfulness of memories and our subjection to time. In each, Larkin talks of the ways music can provoke memories, be it the sheet music 'Love Songs in Age', or the records in 'Reference Back'. The tone of the poems is very similar, with a negative opinion expressed in the final stanza of each poem, with 'Reference Back' dealing with the distortion of memories over time, and the theme of 'Love Songs in...

﻿Andres Barbeito
Professor Garcia
ENC1102
April 1, 2013
My Papa’s Waltz
Born in Saginaw Michigan, Theodore Roethke had a troubling childhood. With his works
as evidence, one can see that he had to bear a handful of calamities most of his life, one of them
being his relationship with his father. Now, the love for a father is a very distinctive love. In "My
Papa's Waltz", Theodore Roethke does an excellent job describing the relationship he has with
his father. In...

What Road Society Will Take
People often avoid trying new things for fear of unforeseen consequences. This may keep them from experiences that will change their lives for the better. A merit worthy piece of literature is one that has the ability to evoke any type of feelings towards something. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost does an excellent job of allowing readers to ponder the decisions that they have made in their lives. The poem encourages people to try new things and to give life a...

This poem is a sonnet with a abab rhyme scheme. Richard Wilbur wrote this poem to characterize aesthetic qualities of nature. "Obscurely yet most surely called to praise, As sometimes summer calls us all, I said The hills are heavens full of branching ways Where star-nosed moles fly overhead the dead..." A lot of ambiguity is present at first glance . I believe the first few lines should be interpreted literally: the describing of nature during the summer. "Where star-nosed moles fly overhead...

Analysis of a Poem:
“The Lamb” by William Blake
“The Lamb” by William Blake is a strong teaching of the image of Jesus. The author writes it as a form of a child’s song which an adult is asking questions to a child and the answer to “Who made thee?” This is also a form of a teacher teaching a lesson about Jesus (Blake line 1).The author uses of repetition, metonymy, personification and allusion build the image of Jesus.
The lamb unquestionably symbolizes Jesus. The lamb is a traditional...

The speaker draws a comparison between himself and a fly that he has thoughtlessly brushed away. He asks if he is like the fly, or the fly is more like himself. He imagines another, greater hand, perhaps that of God, brushing him away some day and ending his private designs. He concludes with the belief that he is indeed like the fly, not in his insignificance to Fate or chance, but in the fly’s significance in the natural world. Just as the fly dances and sings, so does the speaker. Thought is...

Loss of One
Is it possible to care for one thing so much that the destruction or loss of a city can have no significance to a person? When a person loses so much on a daily basis, when does the loss start to make a difference? In the poem “One Art”, Elizabeth Bishop utilizes structure, rhyme scheme, and conceptual symbolism to portray that the loss of one’s love negates the loss of everything else.
To begin, the structure of this poem is entirely about the narrator attempting to...

Mr Bleaney is an existenial hero who battles against the odds to find meaning in an otherwise bleak and empty life.
Mr Bleaney led a trival and empty life framed by pointless rituals and as is obvious by his lodgings, did not deserve any better.
Write two short analyses of Mr Bleaney, arguing the two positions above.
The poem Mr Bleaney can be interpreted into different views according to the reader. Larkin could have attempted to portray him to be trival and only living through the...

Analysis
On first contact with "A Poison Tree," a reader may be apostatized by the ostensible simplicity of the poem. It seems like one more example of the children's verses and nursery rhymes that had propagate and were being published in the later component of the eighteenth century. The most famous accumulation was the one attributed to "Mother Goose." Such verses were intended to teach children moral lessons through facile-to-remember rhymes and catchy rhythms.
"I was angry with my...

Robert Frost once said that a poem “is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.” Therefore, a well-written poem has the ability to engage its audience through its obscurity. “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep,” is an ideal example of this opinion. The poem proves to be thought provoking and engaging among students and scholars alike as research shows that there are variations in interpretation of the poem’s content. The basic image conjured in this poem illustrates a succession of people...

Zahia Mustafa
Professor Miller
Sec. 2
Paper #2
Due: April 29, 2013
Exploring George Herbert’s religious poetry.
George Herbert’s style in his collection of religious poetry, The Temple, is very short, clear, concise, and gets to the point. Different from John Donne, Herbert structures his poetry around biblical metaphors and his struggle to define his relationship with God. Herbert places himself in church through many poems that are styled in an architectural...

﻿“Home is where the heart is"
One Flesh, by Elizabeth Jennings and The Lake Isle of Innisfree, by W.B Yates, both discuss desire in their poems. In One Flesh, the narrator of the poem speaks of the lack of desire her parents have in her life, due them growing and slowly drifting apart, whereas, the Lake Isle of Innisfree deals with the desire to be someplace else, a longing for a more simple way of life, away from a hectic civilisation.
In One Flesh, Elizabeth Jennings discuss’ the feelings...

In the poem Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town E. E. Cummings plays with jumbled syntax, a seemingly random rhyme scheme, and the paradox of non-identical repetition to convey his message about the ordinariness of daily life, the passing of time, and the inclusive anonymity of people we encounter in our lives.
Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town describes the daily lives of the people who live in a certain, nameless town. The town is not named and neither are any of the townspeople, other than to...

McMillan uses harsh words throughout the poem to show his grief and remorse at his mothers death. Words like “shatters” link with how he is feeling, like everything is broken and cannot be repaired. This word makes us imagine something broken into lots of tiny pieces which can't be put back together again, and it helps us to understand how broken and jumbled up he is feeling. The word “slap” when talking about “the tears (that) slap my torn face” insinuates the idea that he is in physical pain,...

Crossing at the bar meaning by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tennyson mentions in the first stanza that he is waiting for his death to be called (“and one clear call for me”) in the first and second stanza he also mentions a tidal wave to return him home. When Tennyson mentions 'home' he is referring to heaven. And describes in the third stanza of his twilight while trying to give the impression that he is waiting for the journey of the afterlife, but expects there to be no sadness when he dies,...

LEDA AND THE SWAN
Leda and the swan was written in 1928 by William Butler Yeats. It is a petrarchan sonnet, in iambic pentameter; it has a rhyme pattern in ABAB CDCD EFGEFG. This is the most famous poem in the collection The tower, and the one with most imagery. Despite its ABAB rhyme scheme, the poem is breathtaking due to enjambments. Leda and the Swan was first published in a different version in 1924.
Yeats is well known for his symbolist style, and interest for Irish folklore and...

Taylor James
Mrs. Boatright
English 12
November 12, 2012
O Captain! My Captain!
Written in 1865 by Walt Whitman, “O Captain! My Captain” explains the death of a great and beloved sea captain after a very hard voyage has been completed. This poem captures the speakers emotions and the sorrow over the loss of the esteemed captain. Whitman wrote this poem to express his anguish and despair at the loss of Abraham Lincoln. The overall theme of this poem is loss and Abraham Lincoln saving the...

Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' Poem
William Wordsworth wrote Daffodils on a stormy day in spring, while walking along with his sister Dorothy near Ullswater Lake, in England. He imagined that the daffodils were dancing and invoking him to join and enjoy the breezy nature of the fields. Dorothy Wordsworth, the younger sister of William Wordsworth, found the poem so interesting that she took 'Daffodils' as the subject for her journal. The poem contains six lines in four stanzas, as an appreciation...

Stanza 1This man was nearly asleep and his senses were really sharp when he hears a knocking on his door. He began to be a little scared, for the night was creepy.Stanza 2This man was feeling nostalgic. When he heard the knocking on that door he imagined his diseased wife, he wants the past back.Stanza 3This man started to visualize things that didn’t actually happen. He felt like someone was there entering through the door.Stanza 4The man decides to face that thing that is breaking in, but he...

The poem is set out into three stanzas, the last stanza ( A door- fields of snow) being a rhyming couplet, with the words ‘blow’ and ‘snows’. If you look at the poem at the end of the first stanza, the final line ends as a half line and at the same time the first line at the beginning of the second stanza starts exactly after the half line. The purpose Elizabeth did that because she would like to continue the second stanza exactly where the first stanza ended; so she has the same line of...

In the opening stanza, Longfellow begins by saying “Tell me not in mournful numbers/Life is but an empty dream.” With these lines Longfellow establishes that he does not want to hear from those who feel that life is only time spent on earth and that there is nothing after one dies. Longfellow indicates that things may not be as they seem.
In the second stanza, Longfellow exclaims that life is real and earnest, but the grave is not its goal. Dust to dust did not refer to the soul just the...

﻿Beautiful Experiences of Nature
Nature is indestructible, although it can give you experiences you will keep in mind forever. The poem, “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” by Emily Dickenson tells us about nature and its experiences that beautify the life and death of humans. Nature here means seasonal weather such as winter and summer. The word “it” is symbolic, representing the speaker in this poem. This poem talks about the nature of snow and its effects on the environment: “To Stump, and Stack –...

Sir Walter Raleighs The Lie is a Renaissance poem which explores universal political and social ideas. The poem was written in the year 1618, as the poet awaited his execution in a chamber in the Tower of London.
Raleigh says Tell men of high condition, that manage the estate, their purpose is ambition; their practise only hate. Raleigh speaks of customs no longer followed as he refers to the rich as owning an estate, but also comments upon human nature and the universal theme of selfishness...

The Self-Unseeing – Notes
This lilting, serious, elegant poem illustrates several of the salient qualities in Hardy’s lyrical poetry. We see here, for example, what has been justly termed his “natural piety” – the “he” and the “she” are his father and mother. We notice how the subject of beloved things in retrospect calls out here, as it seldom failed to do, the poet’s lyrical tenderness. The poem illustrates, too, that love of music and the dance which affected Hardy from an early age, and...

Keats' poem is a Shakespearean Sonnet with an elevated tone and is divided into three quatrains and rhyming couplet as opposed to octave and sestet. Continuity is gained by the repetition of the word "when" at the beginning of each quatrain. This builds the tension of the poem describing areas of concern for unfinished tasks. The word "before" in the second line is echoed during the third reinforcing the speaker's list of desired accomplishments before it is too late. This syntax sets the tone...

The Raven.
Stanza 1
This man was nearly asleep and his senses were really sharp when he hears a knocking on his door. He began to be a little scared, for the night was creepy.
Stanza 2
This man was feeling nostalgic. When he heard the knocking on that door he imagined his diseased wife, he wants the past back.
Stanza 3
This man started to visualize things that didn’t actually happen. He felt like someone was there entering through the door.
Stanza 4
The man decides to face that thing...

﻿What is Hardy trying to portray in his poem about ‘Drummer Hodge’?
The poem ‘Drummer Hodge’ has been carefully written by Thomas Hardy, this poem has a sombre and a grieving tone but on the other hand, Hardy has used some phrases and words that contrast this, which makes this poem sound peaceful and magical. However, by looking at the techniques and effects Hardy has used, this make us think that Drummer Hodge is a sad and melancholy poem.
In the first stanza of Drummer Hodge, Hardy has...

Both “Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Mother Any Distance” by Simon Armitage focus on the role of being a mother and having to give up something. In “Before You Were Mine” its Carol Ann Duffy’s mother letting go and giving up her carefree lifestyle, to take up the important role of a mother. Whereas in “Mother Any Distance” its Simon Armitage’s mother realising she has to let her son grow up and leave her grasps.
The poem “Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy, focuses on the...

﻿“Analyze a poem of your choice.” (3 points)
Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare (analysis)
This poem is about love, not between a speaker and his lover, but as a concept or idea. The poem explores what is meant by love, and proposes that, if it is true, love is one of life's constants, which does not change with time or circumstance.
Sonnet 116 uses repeated pairs of words: "love is not love", "alters when it alteration finds" and "remover to remove”, are examples from the first three...

Unlike some of his earlier work, this poem adopts a new tone and style which expresses a hatred for the Catholic Bourgeoisie.[2] Yeats' new use of unpleasant adjectives such as 'greasy' is very much indicative of the tone, as he expresses that religion and the middle class is crafty and sly. Moreover, the use of the strong ABAB rhyme scheme maintains a spiteful and accusatory tone.
The poem focuses on manifesting Yeats' new stance of belief exploring his new political mind and celebrating...

Analysis by N. Mohsin
Autobiography, by Louis MacNeice
In my childhood trees were green
And there was plenty to be seen.
Come back early or never come.
My father made the walls resound,
He wore his collar the wrong way round.
Come back early or never come.
My mother wore a yellow dress;
Gentle, gently, gentleness.
Come back early or never come.
When I was five the black dreams came;
Nothing after was quite the same.
Come back early or never come.
The dark was...

Blake was an English poet who was born in 1757 and died in 1827. Blake was part of the Romantic Age. Although Blake was largely unrecognized as a poet during his lifetime, his work was bizarre for those times. His poetry was reverent to the Bible, but hostile to the Church of England. The fact that ................... are evident in his poetry, especially these two poems.
Nature
The Echoing Green (innocence)
This poem depicts a conventional village in which a whole day’s cycle is portrayed....

Memories from our childhoods are often remembered for the rest of our lives. They can range from small things like playing in the park or a birthday party to important milestones such as a first kiss or the first day of school. Now matter how small or insignificant these events seemed at the time, they will be treasured for ever and looked back on as some of the best times of your life. The memories are normally reminders of good times and the joys of childhood. But for some people, their...

Songs of Innocence and of Experience Themes
by William Blake
Major Themes
The Destruction of Innocence
Throughout both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Blake repeatedly addresses the destruction of childlike innocence, and in many cases of children's lives, by a society designed to use people for its own selfish ends. Blake romanticizes the children of his poems, only to place them in situations common to his day, in which they find their simple faith in parents or God challenged...

﻿Plot summary
The prose fiction Brown girl, brownstones by Paule Marshall, is a bildungsroman with autobiographical elements, tracking the life and experiences of the main protagonist, Selina Boyce and the family and friends in her life. Marshall uses various elements and techniques in the prose, to bring about different themes, characteristics and aspects in her novel. The text is set mainly in the 1930's Brooklyn, New York, at a community of brownstone houses occupied by the Bajan immigrants....

Irving Diaz
CP English Per. 5
Mrs. Feuerborn
February 2, 2012
Shakespeare’s Love
In his sonnet William Shakespeare uses extended metaphors, symbolism, and rhyme pattern to both compare a young woman’s beauty to summer and show that her beauty will live on throughout his poem, thus death would truly mean nothing in writing. He develops the characteristics of the women by drawing comparisons between her and summer using the extended metaphor implying that even though she is comparable to...

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We Real Cool: Poetry Explication
“We Real Cool” is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1959, and published in her book The Bean Eaters (We Real Cool, pg 1). A simple and light poem, “We Real Cool” is vague enough to allow readers to visualize their own characters and setting, but specific enough to keep a consistent rebellious image. Brook’s attitude toward the characters is undecided, as the tone is neither tragic nor victorious, but...

﻿Introduction to Poetry Appreciation.
TAQ 2:
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is based upon Duke Alfonso II of Ferrara's marriage to Lucrezia de' Medici and her death at his hands. Although it has never been proven that the Duke orchestrated her death, she did die suspiciously at the young age of seventeen after only a year of being married to the Duke. At first glance the reader only sees this story but upon reading the poem in more depth and looking at what the form and language devices...

Content
In “The Wild Honey Suckle” Philip Freneau addresses a flower, writing to it, how beautiful it is. He wishes that it should not be damaged. He appreciates the skilfully planted wild honey suckle and its harmonic place within nature. Freneau also expresses his worries about the flower and compares it to those in paradise. He is aware of the flower’s fading and the short time that lies between growing and dying.
Structure and Form
The poem is divided into four stanzas. Each stanza...

﻿“Piano” shows a man recalling his childhood as he is listening to a woman singing. This poem reflects his mood of nostalgia and pathos; the speaker is longing for the simplicity and comfort of years gone by. We can discover that there is an ambiguous, harmonious tone, which is accentuated by its structure and rhyme. It also insists of rich imagery that creates a vivid picture for audiences. It is a relatively short poem that has only three stanzas, but Lawrence conveys the main theme of...

“It's the journey not the arrival that matters” as journeys are often a metaphor for that which transcends the physical realms of one's travels. It is the medium for arrival that allows for the opportunity for self-discovery.
The complexities of life as revealed throughout Robert Frost's poetry, use ordinary, physical journeys in nature to demonstrate how journeys often reach beyond the physical sense in which they are composed.
Similarly, the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and the...

Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est
Dulce et Decorum Est – Part of a phrase from Horace, quoted in full in the last lines “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country”
Qn: Note all the similes in this poem. What patterns do you see here? What do the similes individually and collectively contribute to the poem, especially in terms of undermining the “lie” to which Owen alludes?
Title
As we begin to peruse the title, we get the initial impression that the contents of the poem are related...

I dreamt a dream! What can it mean?
And that I was a maiden Queen
Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er beguiled!
And I wept both night and day,
And he wiped my tears away;
And I wept both day and night,
And hid from him my heart's delight.
So he took his wings, and fled;
Then the morn blushed rosy red.
I dried my tears, and armed my fears
With ten-thousand shields and spears.
Soon my Angel came again;
I was armed, he came in vain;
For the time of youth was fled,...

﻿Tupac’s Analyzed Poem
My poem is by Tupac Shakur. This poem is titled “And 2Morrow”. He was an activist of violence and gangs. So in this poem Tupac discusses the downs of gang-life. Tupac wrote this poem in a text message way of writing. He spells “tomorrow” “2Morrow”, “see” “c”, and “to” “2”. I believe he did this because he was speaking to his audience, gang member or soon to be gang member, in their language. Tupac is not illiterate so he spelled all his words correctly in the last stanza...

﻿Sonnet 18 Explication
Sonnet 18 is a typical Shakespearean sonnet that hardly departs from the “classic” rules of an English sonnet. It has fourteen lines in a simple iambic pentameter; although, there are a few strong first syllables in the poem and some lines have eleven syllables instead of just ten. None of the lines flow into the next one. All of them have a distinct stopping place except that of line 9 (as far as punctuation goes.) There are three quatrains in the poem, the third one...

As Leon Battista Alberti once said, “Painting is possessed of divine powered, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive”. This seems to summarize the central theme of William Butler Yeats’ poem, “Sailing to Byzantium” that through human imagination, nature and its raw materials are transformed into something that will withstand the test of time. Through the use of Yeats’ clusters of images, paradoxes, and syntax, this theme of endurance over time is...

Explore the ways in which Larkin in ‘Mr Bleaney’ and ‘Home is so sad’ and Abse in ‘Leaving Cardiff’ depict a sense of belonging.
In the poem ‘Mr Bleaney’ Larkin uses ordinary and mundane objects, for example the ‘bed, upright chair, sixty-watt bulb’ are typical everyday objects yet at the same time could be suggesting how they and Mr Bleaney are not so very different and thus go hand in hand with one another. Also Larkin depicts a semantic field of confinement when we are told of the ‘one...

The two poems I have chosen to compare are The Daffodils and Darkling Thrush. Both poems are about nature and convey the poet’s feelings about nature. William Wordsworth the poet of The Daffodils talks about flowers and has a happy and joyous feeling throughout meanwhile Thomas Hardy talks about a bird and the landscape and has a cold, sad tone, showing that he is envious against nature. They both show how nature can unexpectedly cheer you up.
Both poems contain four...

Analysis of "The Tyger"
In "The Tyger" William Blake ponders the creation and existence of a metaphorical Tiger. Through several rhetorical questions and illustrious details Blake wonders who created "The Tyger", and if the same person also created the lamb. Blake uses "The Tyger" to symbolize evil in the world, and to question the creator's intentions with it.
"The Tyger" is composed of six stanzas, which consists of four-seven word lines; the lines are short and contain about seven...

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Ohio
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (CSNY) wrote this song, Ohio, in response to the Kent State shooting in Ohio. This song made a bold musical statement during its time as it mentioned Nixon by name, blaming him for this massacre. The instruments hold a constant beat in the song while the lyrics were carefully crafted so that they could express a lot in a few words.
The instrumentals have an underlying marching beat throughout the entire...

Poem #12
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who...

﻿English Literature
Carol Ann Duffy: Hour
Context
Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate (2009), and probably the best known female poet working in Britain today. She was born in 1955 in Glasgow. Duffy is well known for poems that give a voice to the dispossessed (people excluded from society); she encourages the reader to put themselves in the shoes of people they might normally dismiss.
Her poetry often engages with the grittier and more disturbing side of life, using black...

To What Extent Are William Blake's Two Chimney Sweeper Poems, A Societal Protest Against Child Labour in 18th Century England?
William Blake, born on November 28th 1775 in England, was one of England's most renowned poets. His two most famous poetic collections are The Songs of Innocence, published in 1792, and The Songs of Experience, published in 1796; both pieces, highlight Blake's distrust towards society’s institutions and a sympathy for the vulnerable who were mistreated. He often wrote...

Comparative commentary
Both poems are written by William Shakespeare. They originate from two different sources. One is part of a play, Two Gentlemen of Verona. The other is a poem found in a bundle with various other poems written by Shakespeare. The poems have the same theme, as love and infatuation are the main topics. Their purpose is to portray a person in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience.
The song ‘Why is Sylvia’ is organized into...

"Success Is Counted Sweetest" by Emily Dickinson basically sends the message that success, like any other possession tangible or intangible, is only appreciated by those whom it is not always readily available. Dickinson both clearly states this message and implies it throughout the poem, and uses rhyme, imagery, and irony to incorporate the theme that the one who holds success dearest to them is the one who never succeeds.
The rhythmic pattern makes the poem flow together, using the rhyme...

The poem entitled ''Abiku'' is a foreign word that suggest a spiritual child,who is coming and going from the world(reincarnating).From the title the title we get to know that 'Abi' means to be born and 'Ku' means to die,this butresses that we are all born to die and it also shows the inevitability of death.
In the first stanza we hear a(that of Abiku)boasting that no one can stop him from coming and going from the world.From the tone of d Abiku,we get to know that he is addressing his suppose...

Romeo replies to Juliet’s speech by agreeing to disown his name “Henceforth, I never will be Romeo”.
Shakespeare implies the danger that the lovers are in when Juliet points out “the place death, considering who thou art”. This creates tension for the audience, and demonstrates Juliet’s concern for Romeo’s safety – “If they do see thee, they will murder thee.”
Romeo speaks metaphorically when he says “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls”, suggesting there is no boundary to...

How far do you agree that “Dulce et Decorum est” is a poem of central importance in the Wilfred Owen anthology?
In your answer you should make reference to two or three poems in detail or range more widely across the anthology. (45 marks).
In consideration of the question in asking, it is seemingly important to first assess what defines a Wilfred Owen poem as being “important” in the context of the wider anthology. Perhaps, as an anti war poet, Owen would deem his most influential poem to be...

What is the difference
between
Shakespearian Sonnet
and Italian Sonnet ?
Perchantant: Sonnet
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
From Sonnets
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Ye ladies, walking past me piteous-eyed,(a)
Who is the lady that lies prostrate here?(b)
Can this be even she my heart holds dear?(b)
Nay, if it be so, speak, and nothing hide.(a)
Her very aspect seems itself beside,(a)
And all her features of such altered cheer(b)
That to my thinking they do not appear(b)
Hers who makes others...

In “Sonnet 116” written by William Shakespeare, the poet describes thoughts of love and how it affects a person. The idea of love is clearly conveyed throughout the poem. Through the structure, figurative language, and rhyme scheme of the poem, the poet is able to establish his opinion on love and how he feels about it.
The structure of the poem is that of a Shakespearean sonnet. It contains three quatrains and one couplet. The structure of the poem is what makes it unique. The three quatrains...

﻿Critique of Sonnet 138
Sonnet 138 is a sonnet written by William Shakespeare in 1599. There is only record of Shakespeare writing 154 sonnets in his lifetime. Lines one through twelve are written in ABAB rhyme scheme and the rhyme scheme changes in lines thirteen and fourteen where it is GG. The whole thing is in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare uses a lot of personification and connotation to tell a hidden story within this poem.
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138 can be put in much simpler terms. In...

Author: Thomas Hardy
First Published: 1898
Type of Poem: Sonnet
Genres: Poetry, Sonnet
Subjects: Suffering, Despair, God, Pain, Good and evil, Gods or goddesses, Fate or fatalism, Life, philosophy of, Life and death, Time, Joy or sorrow, Luck or misfortune
The Poem
Thomas Hardy has structured “Hap” to meet all the requirements of the form of an English sonnet: Its fourteen lines are written in iambic pentameter, the rhyme scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg is complied with, and the three...

A Litany in Time of Plague
Thomas Nashe’s poem, “A Litany in Time of Plague” is one that must be closely looked at to be fully appreciated. This meaningful poem is concerned with death and is a stand out work due to its structure, word choice, and what it means to relay to the reader. The poem also has characteristics that make it unique.
Both the structure and word choice that Nashe uses, help to set this poem apart from other works from this time. The poem is made up of six stanzas, each...

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The selection process for this group of lesson plans included allowing students to show me about their favorite books. This was done to ensure student interest in the given lesson plans. I was able to then go through the books students told me about and find the best possible selection based on the lessons being taught.
I chose the book “Over in the Jungle – A Rainforest Rhyme” by Marianne Berkes. This book was chosen because of its rhyme scheme. This is important when teaching students word...

The two poems I will be comparing and contrasting in this essay are two of William Shakespeare's most famous sonnets. Sonnets numbered 18, 'Shall I compare thee...' and 116, 'Let me not.' Both of these poems deal with the subject of love but each poem deals with its subject matter in a slightly different manner. Each also has a different audience and purpose. In the case of 'Shall I compare thee...' the audience is meant to be the person Shakespeare is writing the sonnet about. Its purpose is to...

AN ANALYSIS OF AN EXTRACT FROM MARY WROTH’S SONNETT 14
The verse in hand is essentially a love sonnet, but rather than cite the wonders of the stars and her lovers eyes, Wroth is using the sonnet form to lament the inequalities of courtship and detail the agony of unrequited or forbidden love. The opening sentence ‘Am I thus conquer’d?’ sets a disparaging tone immediately and this escalates as Wroth continues to use rhetorical interrogatives throughout the poem. Perhaps the most notable...

Horses – Edwin Muir
Summary
The poet one evening happens to see farm horses, those powerful shaggy animals working the plough and something jolts his memory and he recalls his earlier fear of these animals. As a child, Edwin Muir lived in the Orkney Islands where animals like Shetland ponies were used regularly as farm animals. As a child, the poet was overwhelmed by their powerful presence especially when seen through the gloaming light of a late afternoon. When the horses pulled the plough...

Throughout William Shakespeare’s second sonnet the conflict between age’s faded beauty and youth’s pulchritude is illustrated. While the man who the poet is writing to wears “youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now”, it will someday be a “tatter’d weed, of small worth held” (lines 3-4). While he is young, he still holds the beauty, and with that, pride that comes with youth, but soon his beauty will be used like “tattered weeds” (tattered garment). Being young, he wears “proud livery”. Livery can...

Analysis: "The Good Morrow"consists of three stanzas which include 7 lines with an ABABCCC rhyme scheme. Donne’s use of figurative language, along with the point-of-view and tone of the speaker, enhances his poem. Sexual imagery is present in the first stanza with words such as ‘wean’d’ and ‘suck’d’ elicit breast images. These loaded terms also help identify pleasures as a metaphor for breasts. Another example of metaphor is the word ‘beauty’ in line 6, which actually represents the woman. In...

Comment on the Ways Hardy Presents a Sense of Loss in “Your Last Drive”
The sudden loss of a loved one can reveal that a seemingly intimate, idyllic relationship can in fact be complex, distant and lifeless. In "Your Last Drive", by Thomas Hardy, it is indicated that although there may be no afterlife, the dead live on in our memories and through imaginative recreation. Hardy manages to depict these concepts through his intricate control of language.
One of the foremost ways in which Hardy...

Stealing
Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy was written in the 1980's after Duffy had seen her neighbours snowman stolen from their front garden. Getting inspired by this, she had written this poem reflecting on the problems that occured in that moment, hence it was the time in Britain where unemployment was high due to Margaret Thatcher's (the Prime Minister during the 1980's) government policies.
The poem starts with a rhetorical question, "The most unusual thing I ever stole?" This question...

NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
Robert Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," although quite short, contains powerful images that provide a unique insight to one of the many cycle's of life. The title of the poem infers that the subject of this poem is something that was once beautiful and pure, but cannot remain so.
On the surface, it seems the speaker of the poem is referring to Nature's beauty can never remain. The first couplet "Nature's first green is gold/Her hardest hue to hold" could represent...

﻿How does John Agard present his views on War and Conflict in the poem “Flag”
Throughout time, flags have given men connotations of bravery, identity and solidarity, showing a belonging to a particular culture or set ideology. Within the poem, Agard attempts to strip back all of the cultural connotations of what a flag represents and take a more literal approach to it being “Just apiece of Cloth”.
In doing this, he presents man as the cause of wars, and shows how flags have, throughout time,...

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Claude McKay is a man who spans national boundaries, literary genres,political identities, and even his own time. Born in the country of Jamaica in 1890, McKay was a talented young man. As a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, Claude McKay's writing spanned many complex themes, both from his experiences of life in Jamaica and his life in the United States. His early writings would be focused on his life in Jamaica. They would go on to win several literary awards, allowing McKay to fund...

Analysis of “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
Originally published in 1920, shortly after World War I, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” demonstrates
the horror of the unjust deaths of young soldiers. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is a poem about Owen’s
distain towards the honourless way in which young soldiers pass on, and the impact their deaths have on the
loved ones they leave behind. The following essay will show that in the anti-war poem, “Anthem for
Doomed Youth”, Owen uses sensational...

“Out,Out-“ and Bredon Hill are two very different poems which both deal with the theme of unexpected death. “Out,Out-“, by Robert Frost, is the story of the death of a boy caused by a buzz-saw. The title, “Out,Out-“, was taken by Frost from Shakespeare’s Macbeth – these words were used to express Macbeth’s grief at the death of his wife, Lady Macbeth, saying “out,out brief candle”, which enforces the idea that a life has prematurely ended, which echoes the theme and narrative of the poem....

Show Boat opened in 1927 at the Ziegfeld Theatre. It was composed by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. At this time on Broadway Show Boat was seen as a controversial play because of the topics regarding gambling, alcoholism, racism and marriage. It was also one of the first musicals that had both white and black actors on stage at once. This musical was very intriguing and had many unique aspects to it. For these reasons and many more the song that is going to be analyze is “Can’t...

Sonnet #29
Despite popular belief, William Shakespeare was considered a great poet before a great playwright. He accomplished writing at least 154 sonnets and other poems of love. In this paper, I will analyze one of his greatest sonnets.
One of the most famous of his sonnets is number XXIX. This sonnet is one long sentence, but it still follows the usual Shakespearean pattern of three quatrains (four line sections) and a couplet. It also follows the traditional rhyme scheme for...

﻿John Keats (1795-1821)
TO AUTUMN.
1.
SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
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Analysis of Mid-Term Break Poem by Seamus Heaney.
There are stories in the poem and story in the poem “Mid- Term Break” by Seamus Heaney is about a young boy who just come back from boarding school had loss his brother in an accident. The death of the brother had give difference emotional respond by the family member about the death .
Literary device make poem better and make it interesting to read...

Analyse the ways in which Own conveys powerful feelings about war in the poem ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.
In the poem ‘anthem for doomed youth’ by Wilfred Owen, many techniques are used to make the poem as raw and powerful as it is.
The first way that Owen conveys powerful feelings about the war in the poem is through his use of structure. The poem is in a sonnet form and is split into an octet and a sestet. The significance of structuring the poem in this way is that a sense of deep sadness...

The Send off Analysis:
* Owen does not experiment with language and structure in this poem.
* The poem is about the experience of men being moved from their training camp to the trenches in France. The men would have come from a variety of places in the country to the training camp, and the town would therefore have little connection to the men (hence there being a small turnout of support). The poem highlights this sense of anonymity and the very low-key way in which the men are...